Macrocnemus
| Macrocnemus Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 245–228Ma | |
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| Fossil of Macrocnemus bassanii | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Order: | †Protorosauria |
| Genus: | †Macrocnemus Nopcsa, 1931 |
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Macrocnemus is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile from the Middle Triassic of Europe and China.
Description
The name is from the Greek for "long tibia". Two species have been named, the type species M. bassanii and the species M. fuyuanensis.[1] The reptile was around 20-25 cm long. It may have eaten limulid eggs and hunted in packs.
Macrocnemus bassanii fossil
Life restoration of Macrocnemus basanii
References
- ↑ Jiang, D.-Y.; Rieppel, O.; Fraser, N.C.; Motani, R.; Haoa, W.-C.; Tintorie, A.; Suna, Y.-L.; Suna, Z.-Y. (2011). "New information on the protorosaurian reptile Macrocnemus fuyuanensis Li et al., 2007, from the Middle/Upper Triassic of Yunnan, China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 (6): 1230–1237. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.610853.